Robert James Warr
I whānau mai i te 28 Oct 1891 - I mate atu i te 12 Oct 1917
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 8/2170 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM Otago Infantry Regiment AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Robert James AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Warr AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWI 8/2170 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 28 Oct 1891 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- Unknown AWMM 105 Eden Terrace, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- W.J. Warr (father), 15 South Terrace, Bletcheley, Buckinghamshire, England AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Pre 13 Jun 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 8/2170 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 Unknown AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW1 13 Jun 1915-24 Jul 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 24 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Son of William James and Elizabeth Warr, of 15, South Terrace, Bletchley, Bucks, England.
Next of kin address incorrectly spelt as Blatchley in Nominal Roll.
Next of Kin: Mr W. J. Warr, Bletchley, Bucks., England (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM - His parents were notified by telegram at the beginning of November 1917 that he had been killed in action on 12 October 1917, and soon after this they received two letters from the front. The first was from a Chaplain, and while the contents were no doubt sincere, it is more then likely that he had had little actual contact with Robert and that this was one of many similar letters that he had to write. The second one, however, was from one of his chums in the battalion, whom Robert had asked to write to his family should anything happen to him. These letters informed them that Robert had died instantly from a shot through the head by a sniper and that he had been buried where he fell near the village of Passchendaele. (Tyne Cot Cemetery)
The following was placed in the 15 October 1918 edition of the North Bucks Times by his family:
Sleep on Dear Jim, you nobly fell
Your last march past is o'er
You sleep beside your comrades now
Far from your native shore
Gently the stars are shining
Out there on his silent grave
There lies our dear one sleeping
For England he fought so bravePublic - Ian - Researcher - 26 January 2015 - Local Newspapers
1901 UK Census - Robert James Warr was born in October 1890, one of at least eight children of William James and Elizabeth Warr. Ovet the years the family lived at various address's in the Fenny Stratford area, in Back Lane, in West View and at the April 1901 census in St. Martins Street.
After leaving school Robert worked for the London & North Western Railway at Bletchley and served three and three quarter years in the Royal Navy before emigrating to New Zealand, where, by early 1915 he was living at 105 Eden Terrace, Auckland and working as a stoker for the Portland Cement Company. He joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on 20 February 1915, he was not married and gave his next of kin as his father, who by this time was living at 15 South Terrace.
He underwent a somewhat short period of training in New Zealand until 12 june 1915 and on the following day embarked on active service. This initially took him to Anzac, (presumably Anzac Cove, Gallipoli), where he arrived on 9 August; he was evacuated from here due to illness, (the North Bucks Times reported that he was suffering from Dysentery), and on 30 October he was admitted to hospital on the isle of Lemnos. Following recovery from this, he,along with the rest of the survivors from the ill fatedGallipoli expedition were evacuated to Egypt, arriving at Alexandria on Christmas Eve 1915. after a period of rest reorganisation and reinforcement, the New Zealanders left Egypt for France on 16 April 1916. Over the next 14 months Robert had various duties including periods with both the Australian and New Zealand Tunneling Companies and the 3rd Army Mine School, he also had a two week period of leave that he spent in fenny stratford in January/February 1917.
Robert returned to his battalion on 30 June 1917, and it would appear that they then became embroiled in the killing fields that later came to be known as the 3rd Battle of Ypres, (Passchendaele). His parents were notified by telegram at the beginning of November 1917 that hPublic - Ian - Researcher - 23 January 2015 - Uk Census
Local Newspaper
- Son of William James and Elizabeth Warr, of 15, South Terrace, Bletchley, Bucks, England.
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 12 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age 26 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM XIV. A. 16. AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22016077
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/465056/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/465056
Further Reference - Passchendaele Museum Profile
https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/4398
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
- Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Page No: 758 - Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 1: Includes portrait - Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
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